Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-07-16
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New York ALal and Ezpres5l
A woman who was a private patient
for several weeks IN a leading hospital
in this city consented to tell a reporter
some interesting facts In regard to the
operations performed. They are re-
markable instances Of medical and
surgical skill. The lady was never in a
hospital, and was quite curious to OBJ
serve the actions of patients. nurses,
and surgeons. She had an interesting
experience with her next-door neigh
Dor, who was suffering from dementia-
The second night of her stay he jumped
out of bed and shouted "AIurderl" and
"Police!" until half the hospital was
aroused and nurses and attendants, or
derlies and doctors came rushing to the
scene. AS that weird cry of murder
rang and echoed through the long halls
and corridors the effect was remark
able. An engineer in one of the pri-
vate rooms, with crushed head and al
most senseIess, ceased his low means
OF pain and listened. He had been
brought to the hospital two days be-
fore after falling down an elevator
shaft and striking on his head, sustain
ing an injury which, upon examination.
proved to be a compound fracture Of
the skull A very skillfu1 operation
was performed by the attending sur
geOns. His brains were entirely re-
moved and broken pieces of the skull
extracted, and the uninjured portions
of the brain returned to their place.
Even the little 3-months-old babe
brought there with club feet, now
Strengthened with brace and bandage,
ceased its wailings Of pain and listened
too. A little 3-year-old boy with a
broken leg, who had been moaning all
day and calling for his mother, hushed
his cries, and, clutching the bedclOthes,
lay with wide-Open eyes the remainder
of the night. In the wOman's ward
was a poor creature who had fallen
from a fOurth-story window, breaking
both legs, three ribs, and sustaining in
ternal injuries The sound of the
alarm below partially aroused her from
her lethargy, and she began calling for
the little children who were playing on
the floor of her tenement room when
she fell. Although everything was
done for her at the hospital. the poor
woman died the next day. The old
man was finally coaxed back to his
room, and the door locked this time to
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at is astonishing, said the lady, "tC
witness what Is accomplished in difficult
surgery at the hospitals, even IN these
days of scientific discoveries and
achievements. If I should tell one
half of what I saw and heard during
the three weeks of my stay I would
scarcely be believed. After almost
cutting people in pieces and putting
them together again, and keeping them
in bed a couple of weeks they turn
them out cured. And it is done SO
easily. The simplest remedies posi-
bic, and system and regularity in every
detail are strictly observed. The
service is admirable. Only trained and
! experienced nurses, male and female
are employed, and then the conven-
fences and paraphernalia are so per
feet. The ambulance comes and goes,
and brings patient after patient. L
their injuries are slight the wounds are
dressed, and they are sent away; il
serious they are Immediately taken tc
the operating-room, and from thence tC
the wards. No questions are asked, nc
gossiping is allowed, and one Of the
nurses said to me, when she thought
was too inquisitive: we are here Il
work and not to talk
zone day I noticed unusual excite
ment among the orderlies, and my
nurse informed me she would have tt
leave me for a couple of hours in charge
of the nurse from the next ward.
middle-aged gentleman suffering from
a cancer on his tongue had entered the
hospital to be operated upon. The
seriousness of the case caused the hut
ter of excitement among the nurses
! The scent of ether was in the air, auC
we knew the new patient was being
conveyed to the operating-roOm. Two
hours passed and he did not return
Another hour and the -orderlies bore
him to his room. The operation haC
been entirely successful. Some of the
teeth were extracted and the unde-
jaw had to be sawed apart in sections
and turned down over the neck, while
about two-thirds of the tongue anC
roots were removed; then the separated
jaw was reunited, the head and fac
bandaged, and two hours after he wa
sleeping like a babe.
"The service in a first-class hospital
| it seems to me, is the best medical anC
surgical skill that science can command
The great benevolence and self-denia
with which the physicians work in sucl
institutions are to be greatly admired
1 want to say to all who are afflicted
that to be conveyed to a hospital is b,
no means to be conveyed to the grave.
PatEickAIurray, Sexton st. Patrick
Cemetery, Baltimore, Md, was poisoned
by poison oak, and was promptly cured
by st. Jacobs Oil. Sold by Druggist
/ and Dealers.